Uber reaches settlement with victim’s family in self-driving car accident

Uber has reached a settlement with the family of a woman who died recently after being struck by one of the company’s self-driving cars, according to multiple news agencies.The terms of the settlement haven’t been revealed, according to Fortune. However, the family’s lawyer announced that “the matter has been resolved.” On March 18, Elaine Herzberg was hit by the self-driving vehicle when crossing a street with her bicycle in Tempe, Ariz. The Uber car had a human driver as a precautionary measure. But at the time of the accident, the car had been “operating in autonomous mode,” as described in various news reports. The driver also had been “looking down” seconds before the vehicle struck Herzberg. Uber had been testing various self-driving cars in multiple states as a possible future business venture. Immediately after the accident, however, the company put a hold on all testing of its self-driving vehicles.Herzberg’s fatal accident has raised nationwide concerns of how big businesses are trying to innovate their transportation services and what potential threats those services might pose to the public.